Cross-stitch cafe 2010

awesome2_2

Hi Sweetcarer
Hope your mum gets better soon sending big hugs to you :grouphug: and remember to take care of yourself too

chickywiggle

well hubby's at home for next few days and I'm off work so he is on baby duty while i 'hide' in our room and crack on with Charlies ark. I also need to do a winnie the pooh birth sampler - anyone got a nice quick one??

shelly

chickywiggle wrote: »

i was bad...... and bought a double popcorn kit NEW for less then £5 inc. delivery. and 4 stitch unpickers (£2.99) one for each place i may try and hunt for one!!

did make about £50 in sales tho so justifiable.

If you made £50 you are excused for spending some of it

I noticed you mention stitch unpickers a few days ago and was going to ask you about them but I couldn't word my query right so I'll try again
Do you use them actually rip the stitches out completely or are you careful to save the thread? (when cross stitching, not general clothes repairs)
I have never thought about getting one for when my cross stitching goes wrong, I just usually unpick my mistakes with the needle I am sewing with.

witchwoopiggy

thinking of you sweetcarer hope your mum gets better soon

not much stitching today, seem to have lost my get up and go its got up and gone, just want to sleep oh well see what tomorrow brings

nmm

chickywiggle wrote: »

I also need to do a winnie the pooh birth sampler - anyone got a nice quick one??

You have a pm

Hugs to the poorlies, i hope you get better soon I've just completed my neice's birthday card will pop up a photo tomorrow.

*Louise*

*Louise* wrote: »

11-05-10

Got the boys in their windows with their favourite colour tops on, my daughter keeps peering at it and asking where her picture is lol

17-05-10

Got my daughter's piccy done, plodding on with the brickwork...

23rdspiral

grumble, i posted last night but it's disapeared. hope i can remember!

sweetcarer - hoping your mum gets well soon, *hugs*

chickywiggle - bravo on your ebay sales! (can i ask what you sell?)

louise - perhaps we are all so quiet as we're still exhausted from the April Challenge!! oh, and Happy Birthday!!! and the house is looking great!

update: well i've not recieved my quilt part yet but that could be due to the legal issue. dunno. anyway, so i've sorted the threads to do the little patchwork heart. thank you Ali!!

sweetcarer

Sorry I didn't have time to get on last night.

Mum is still in hospital and says thank you all for all your kind messages and thank you from me too.

:A What a lovely gang we have here.:j

sweetcarer

PS Hope you had a nice birthday Louise.

chickywiggle

shelly wrote: »

If you made £50 you are excused for spending some of it

I noticed you mention stitch unpickers a few days ago and was going to ask you about them but I couldn't word my query right so I'll try again
Do you use them actually rip the stitches out completely or are you careful to save the thread? (when cross stitching, not general clothes repairs)
I have never thought about getting one for when my cross stitching goes wrong, I just usually unpick my mistakes with the needle I am sewing with.

i normally rip the whole lot out. If i notice the mistake as i go along i will unpick with my needle (backtrack) but if I'd done about loads more rows/ rethreaded needled a few times then the whole row got ripped out and binned.

these are very good ones (don't know quality yet) from here turned up today so super quick postage.

23rdspiral wrote: »

chickywiggle - bravo on your ebay sales! (can i ask what you sell?)

just house stuff i'm done with. this weekend was some teaching books and some oversize (big) books (the type you read to your class).

Keiss_21

Hya all, wonderful sewing being produced here! Love the house Louise!

Great news...I have finished the first page of the Astronomer!! :j

Here is where I was at the end of April, and here is where I am today.



Really pleased, though it took ages, lots of different colours in single stitches...aaargh! So, one page down...only 44 to go!! :eek:
I got lots more stitching done today than I planned, as our dog (a LARGE golden retriever), stood on my crushed toe...TWICE :eek::eek:. I have been unable to wear anything other than my slippers, so no shoppping, walking or gardening done today...but lots of stitching instead!!

Found there are a couple of holes in the evenweave where I next plan to do some stitching. So I will have to sort that before gettting out the next page. Going for the space to the left of what I have done, with more of the telescope. I have had enough of yellows and browns for a while!

Must go and close the greenhouse as it is getting cooler now, though still 15 degrees outside!! It reached over 20 degrees at it's warmest today...perhaps summer is on its way??

I wonder if I will get half-way through the second page before the end of the month? Not so sure, but I will give it a go!